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quoits

A game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it.

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        Uso de quoits en inglés
        1
        Some children dressed in tattered brocades played at quoits on the outskirts.
        Candide
        2
        Two old men were casting quoits; a noisy quartette was playing shuffle-board.
        The Ne'er-Do-Well
        3
        The relaxations of the humbler class, are fives, quoits, skittles, and ale.
        An History of Birmingham (1783)
        4
        I like quoits myself and I should be sorry to interrupt you.
        The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
        5
        Broil it carefully and rare, then go and toss quoits with Hercules.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 / A Maga...
        6
        Morton and Browne hunted up four flat stones, and commenced pitching quoits.
        The Island Home
        7
        But neither quoits nor Jenny Bierce sufficed at all times for forgetfulness.
        A Man and a Woman
        8
        I get up, breakfast, read, play at quoits, and go to bed.
        Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
        9
        Would any of the bigger boys like to play quoits better than cricket?
        Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots
        10
        In the middle of the stone-flagged yard two little boys were playing at quoits.
        Orpheus in Mayfair, and Other Stories and Sketches
        11
        T. J. is a carpenter, six foot four in height, and plays quoits well.
        Reprinted Pieces
        12
        Jem and Jerry were playing quoits with old horseshoes borrowed from the Glen blacksmith.
        Rainbow Valley
        13
        Rubber quoits may be used instead of disks, if available.
        School, Church, and Home Games
        14
        He threw quoits on a table, and won for her two large, pale-blue hat-pins.
        England, My England
        15
        Elfgiva dropped the gilded quoits to wring her hands.
        The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest
        16
        Rose appeared, pink from a game of deck quoits.
        East of the sun
        Sobre este término
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